WebMainz Cathedral or St. Martin's Cathedral (German: Mainzer Dom, Martinsdom or, officially, Der Hohe Dom zu Mainz) is located near the historical center and pedestrianized market square of the city of Mainz, Germany.This 1000-year-old Roman Catholic cathedral is the site of the episcopal see of the Bishop of Mainz.. Mainz Cathedral is predominantly …

WebMainz (German: ()) is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.. Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-west, with Mainz on the left bank, and Wiesbaden, the capital of the neighbouring state Hesse, on the right bank. ...

WebEast Francia (Medieval Latin: Francia orientalis) or the Kingdom of the East Franks (Regnum Francorum orientalium) was a successor state of Charlemagne's empire ruled by the Carolingian dynasty until 911. It was created through the Treaty of Verdun (843) which divided the former empire into three kingdoms. It is considered the first polity in German …

WebThe prince-electors (German: Kurfürst (listen (help · info)), pl. Kurfürsten, Czech: Kurfiřt, Latin: Princeps Elector), or electors for short, were the members of the electoral college that elected the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.. From the 13th century onwards, the prince-electors had the privilege of electing the monarch who would be crowned by the pope.

WebThe Archbishopric of Magdeburg was a Roman Catholic archdiocese (969–1552) and Prince-Archbishopric (1180–1680) of the Holy Roman Empire centered on the city of Magdeburg on the Elbe River.. Planned since 955 and established in 968, the Roman Catholic archdiocese had de facto turned void since 1557, when the last papally …

WebThe Coronation of the Holy Roman Emperor was a ceremony in which the ruler of Western Europe's then-largest political entity received the Imperial Regalia from the hands of the Pope, symbolizing both the pope's right to crown Christian sovereigns and also the emperor's role as protector of the Roman Catholic Church.The Holy Roman Empresses …

WebThe pallium (derived from the Roman pallium or palla, a woolen cloak; pl.: pallia) is an ecclesiastical vestment in the Catholic Church, originally peculiar to the pope, but for many centuries bestowed by the Holy See upon metropolitans and primates as a symbol of their conferred jurisdictional authorities, and still remains a papal emblem.. In its present …

WebDas Pallium ist ein Amtsabzeichen des Papstes, das er regelmäßig an die Metropoliten der lateinischen Kirche verleiht. Es ist ein ringförmiges, etwa 5 bis 15 cm breites Band, eine Art Stola, und wird über dem Messgewand getragen. Üblicherweise sind in einem Pallium sechs schwarze Seidenkreuze eingestickt.

WebKoblenz (German pronunciation: [ˈkoːblɛnts] (); Moselle Franconian: Kowelenz), spelled Coblenz before 1926, is a German city on the banks of the Rhine and of the Moselle, a multi-nation tributary.. Koblenz was established as a Roman military post by Drusus around 8 B.C. Its name originates from the Latin (ad) cōnfluentēs, meaning "(at the) confluence".

WebThe Electorate of Cologne (German: Kurfürstentum Köln), sometimes referred to as Electoral Cologne (German: Kurköln), was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire that existed from the 10th to the early 19th century. It consisted of the Hochstift — the temporal possessions — of the Archbishop of Cologne, and was ruled by him in his …